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**Marquette Assistant Coach** | **Marquette Assistant Coach** | ||
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- | The university held a press conference Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 to formally introduce Williams. Students, faculty, staff, alumni and the general public were invited to attend. The press conference began at 2 p.m. at the Al McGuire Center, 770 N. 12th St. | ||
- | In 2007-08, Williams served as an assistant coach with the Golden Eagles in his first season at Marquette. MU concluded the year 25-10 and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2003. | + | ===== Marquette |
- | His coaching career has included stints as an assistant, associate head and head coach. He has nearly 15 years of experience at the NCAA Division I level. Williams has recruited and coached over 20 players who have earned | + | 25 victories. 12 BIG EAST Conference wins. 2 all-league |
- | "When I met with Buzz, I was convinced that he brings us a passion for college basketball and our BIG EAST conference, and a commitment to both Marquette and the high-level of play our fans have come to expect from Marquette basketball," Father Wild said. | + | Each of the impressive accomplishments listed above, as well as numerous others, were recorded during head coach Buzz Williams' |
- | Williams arrived | + | The Golden Eagles' |
- | Prior to UNO, Williams served as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at [[Texas A&M]] for two seasons (2004-05 - 2005-06) under head coach Billy Gillispie. Both of his recruiting classes with the Aggies | + | Williams directed MU to a 25-10 overall record last season, which included a school-record 12 BIG EAST victories. The Golden Eagles advanced to the second round of the NCAA Championship and were ranked among the nation' |
- | "Early on in this process it became clear that Buzz provided | + | Off the court, Williams and his staff assembled a consensus top-25 recruiting class, a group rated as high as No. 1 in the country by HoopScoopOnline.com. The program' |
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+ | In 2007-08, Williams served as an assistant coach with the Golden Eagles | ||
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+ | **Legal and NCAA Issues During his Tenure** | ||
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+ | During his tenure | ||
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+ | **Departure for Virginia Tech** | ||
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+ | In March 2015, Buzz Williams decided to run away from his poorly constructed team and the legal and NCAA issues above, and took the head coaching job at Virginia Tech; a school with no basketball tradition whatsoever. Buzz never acknowledged that he was showing a lack of the kind of toughness that he preached | ||
+ | ===== University of New Orleans ===== | ||
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+ | Williams arrived in Milwaukee after serving for one season as the head coach at the University of New Orleans. He guided the Privateers | ||
+ | ===== Texas A&M ===== | ||
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+ | Prior to UNO, Williams served as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator | ||
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===== Accomplishments ===== | ===== Accomplishments ===== | ||
^ Year ^ Position ^ Overall Record ^ Conference Record ^ Accomplishments ^ | ^ Year ^ Position ^ Overall Record ^ Conference Record ^ Accomplishments ^ | ||
- | | [[2008|2008-09]] | Marquette, Head Coach | + | | [[2009|2009-10]] | Marquette, Head Coach | 22-12 | 11-7 | NCAA | |
+ | | [[2008|2008-09]] | Marquette, Head Coach | ||
| [[2007|2007-08]] | Marquette, Assistant Coach | 25-10 | 11-7 | NCAA | | | [[2007|2007-08]] | Marquette, Assistant Coach | 25-10 | 11-7 | NCAA | | ||
| 2006-07 | | 2006-07 | ||
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+ | ===== Coach Williams' | ||
+ | ^ Year ^ Record | ||
+ | | 2008-09 |2-2|BET: Beat SJU, Lost Nova. | NCAA #6 Seed: beat #11 Utah State, Lost to #3 Missouri | ||
+ | | 2009-10 |2-2|BET:# | ||
+ | | 2010-11 |4-2|BET:# | ||
+ | | 2011-12 |2-2|BET #2 - Lost to Louisville | NCAA #3 seed: Beat #14 BYU, #6 Murray State, Lost to #7 Florida in Sweet 16| | ||
+ | | 2012-13 |3-2|BET #3 - Lost to Notre Dame | NCAA #3 seed: Beat #14 Davidson, #6 Butler, #2 Miami, Lost to #4 Syracuse in ELITE 8| | ||
+ | |Season Totals: | ||
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===== Quotes ===== | ===== Quotes ===== | ||
- | **[[Tom Crean]] on hiring Buzz-** | + | //" |
+ | **Tom Crean**\\ | ||
+ | **University of Indiana Men's Basketball Coach**\\ | ||
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+ | //"I am very grateful for the opportunity I was presented at the University of New Orleans," | ||
+ | **Buzz Williams**\\ | ||
+ | **Marquette University Men's Basketball Coach** | ||
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- | **Williams on his experience at UNO and joining MU-** "I am very grateful for the opportunity I was presented at the University of New Orleans," | ||
+ | ===== Quotes from Buzz ===== | ||
+ | Buzz has a way with words. | ||
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+ | | "We need to grow our hair out to protect our brains so we don't forget how to play like us." | ||
+ | | "You never know what God has in his plans. But, whatever it is, lets make sure we get the lesson so we dont have to take the test again." | ||
+ | | "Half of our team is old and half of our team is new. But half of the old guys are really still new." | ||
+ | | "I want beavers. I want beavers around me. I want to hire beavers, I want to recruit beavers. Beavers do only one thing – they chop trees. That’s all beavers do. Those are the kind of people I want to be around other than my wife, and that’s it. I want people who all they do is ball, all they think about is ball. My life in so many ways is really boring because it’s like groundhog day every day, you know what I mean?" | ||
+ | | “His body is better than it looks.” - describing Davante Gardner | ||
+ | | “I Googled 'magic pills' after we got beat by DePaul. Nothing came up. I told our team, 'I tried to help you, but all I know to do is just keep working. That's it.' | ||
+ | | “The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker, show up and go to work and do it every day no matter what's surrounding you” - March 17, 2012 following defeat of Murray State to advance to the Sweet 16 | | ||
+ | | “Faith, hope, and love, and the greatest of these is love, and a lot of these kids have never been loved. And when you've never been loved and you're 20 years old and somebody tries to love you for the first time, you don't know how to handle it. And when you start talking about God for the first time and when you think about what those kids have been through in the previous 20 years, they' | ||
+ | | “I like guys that have had to ride in 15-passenger vans. I like guys that, when they order, they use a number. ‘I’d like the combo meal No. 2.’ I like those kinds of guys. I’m never opposed to signing a guy who ate at McDonald’s pre- and post-game, and is thankful to get one cotton t-shirt, not a Dri-FIT.” | ||
+ | | “Just gotta hang in there for one more day…and then do it again the next day.” | ||
+ | | “I think that there’s too much sugar in the world and not enough salt. Kids want to be challenged. Humans want to aspire to something. You don’t win in life and you don’t win in athletics with softness or selfishness.” | ||
+ | | “They' | ||
+ | | “Success will kiss you in private, but failure will slap you in public.” | ||
+ | | “Success is not owned. It's rented. You gotta pay rent everyday, and if you don't pay rent, they kick you out.” | ||
- | ===== Pics ===== | + | ===== Photos |
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- | Marquette head coach, Buzz Williams (fourth from the right), was an assistant on the Colorado State Rams basketball team when they lost to Duke, 67-57, in the first round of the NCAAs on March 20, 2003. CSU head coach, Dale Layer (far right, with his head down) is now one of Coach Williams' | + | |